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...Eksi family lives in a tenement on Beusselstrasse, a bustling street in the working-class Moabit district. Melahab and her husband Mustafa, 45, share a three-room flat with their three youngest sons. Their daughters Nilguen and Aynur, 21, have a small apartment on the top floor of the same building. Mustafa is a forklift operator at the Siemens factory, where he has worked for 15 years. He is a cheerful, gregarious man. The wave of anti-Turkish sentiment has left him puzzled and saddened, and he sees little help from the national government. "I am not political," he says...
Most likely, the arrests would not have been announced until extradition proceedings had been worked out, but a curious series of incidents in West Germany led to the early disclosures. The chain began with a daring escape by a terrorist from West Berlin's Moabit prison. Flashing the identification cards issued to lawyers visiting clients in Moabit, two smartly dressed young women said that they had appointments to see Till Meyer, 34, and Andreas-Thomas Vogel, 24. The two prisoners were among six terrorists on trial for the 1974 murder of West Berlin Supreme Court President Günter von Drenkmann...
...identified as members of the Second of June Movement, a Berlin offshoot of the Red Army Faction. Their caper was especially embarrassing in light of the fact that three of the women had escaped from another West Berlin jail in 1976. To offset criticism of the shoddy security at Moabit, Bonn then announced the arrests of the terrorists in Yugoslavia on May 11; the news had been kept secret because extradition negotiations were not finished...
Above Suspicion. In Berlin, five men were caught trying to steal the copper roofing on the Moabit Criminal Court building...
...threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...